Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . ently in racecharacteristics from the other stocks ofAlaska, and it is generally concededthat they have been carried into this re-mote position by a returning migration of34 in the country of the widely spread fam-ily called the Tinneh. The territoryoccupied by this division extends fromabout the meridian of one hundred andtwenty-five degrees west, eastward toHudsons bay and the gulf of limits northward are the Arcti
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . ently in racecharacteristics from the other stocks ofAlaska, and it is generally concededthat they have been carried into this re-mote position by a returning migration of34 in the country of the widely spread fam-ily called the Tinneh. The territoryoccupied by this division extends fromabout the meridian of one hundred andtwenty-five degrees west, eastward toHudsons bay and the gulf of limits northward are the Arcticocean and the countries of the EasternEsquimaux, whose line of dispersionreaches the coast of Labrador. On the 522 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. south, the great river and lake systemwhich discharges its waters through theNelson into Hudsons bay mark theboundaries of the Tinneh. It is in the latter region that the re-turning lines of the Polynesian Mongo-Generai course loids are again encountered,of Polynesian ^j whole movement of and Esquimau migrations. the latter races here ap- pears from the east to the west, whilethe Asiatics flow from the west to the >=S^-^. TYPE OF AMERICAN MONGOLOIDS-Draivn by Rioi east. The main migration of the East-ern Esquimaux may be regarded as ex-tending through the arctic archipelago,perhaps by way of North Devon island,or Ellesmere land, across Smiths soundinto Greenland, where the final distribu-tion of this family has its limits. It will be seen by an examination ofthe map that this region is under themeridian of fifty degrees west from Greenwich, while the original sourcewhich we have assigned to the Brownraces in Beluchistan is very near themeridian of sixty-five degrees east,from which it is manifest that the di-rect dispersion east and west of theAsiatic Mongoloids has covered a longi-tude of one hundred and sixty-five degrees;and if we take into account the multi-farious departures to the right and left—the endless curves and windings by
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